"the place odds as there is with an each-way bet, and the special place only odds offered by bookmakers can vary quite a bit, both bigger and smaller, from the place odds you would receive if betting each-way. This is particularly true in ""bad each-way"" races, where the place odds are much less generous than if you bet each-way. The upside to this however goes back to what was said above; since the punter does not have to ""waste"" half their stake on the win part of the bet. The Tote Exacta operates in the same way as a normal"
"for declarations, which differs from that for scoring, is : A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7. Belote Belote () is a 32-card, trick-taking, Ace-Ten game played primarily in France and certain European countries, namely Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Moldova. It is one of the most popular card games in those countries, and the national card game of France, both casually and in gambling. It was invented around 1920 in France, and is a close relative of both Klaberjass (also known as bela) and Klaverjas. Closely related games are played throughout the world. Definitive rules of the game were"
"Belote Belote () is a 32-card, trick-taking, Ace-Ten game played primarily in France and certain European countries, namely Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Moldova. It is one of the most popular card games in those countries, and the national card game of France, both casually and in gambling. It was invented around 1920 in France, and is a close relative of both Klaberjass (also known as bela) and Klaverjas. Closely related games are played throughout the world. Definitive rules of the game were first published in 1921. Within the game's terminology, ""belote"" is used to designate a pair of a King"
"figure of £265m. The sale process was completed on 13 July 2011. The Tote The Tote, formerly the Horserace Totalisator Board and called in rhyming slang the nanny, is a British bookmaker with head offices in Wigan. It was owned from its formation in 1928 by the UK Government but was sold to Betfred in July 2011. Under the brand totesport the Tote has 514 high street betting shops, outlets on most of Britain's 60 racecourses, as well as internet and call centre divisions. The company is known for its pool bets such as the Scoop6, and is the only"
"settlers of Quebec, Canada. From Quebec, the game ""Jeu du Toc (Tock)"" moved to France where it is also known as ""Jeu des petits chevaux canadiens"". Tock is also similar to the French game ""Jeu des petits chevaux"", where moves are determined by throwing dice instead of playing cards. Some versions of the game use pawns or ""men"" as tokens; other versions use marbles instead, which advance on a wooden board with circular indentations in it to hold the marbles. While the game is designed on the basis of a French deck of cards with jokers removed; there are some"
"Martingale (betting system) A martingale is any of a class of betting strategies that originated from and were popular in 18th century France. The simplest of these strategies was designed for a game in which the gambler wins his stake if a coin comes up heads and loses it if the coin comes up tails. The strategy had the gambler double his bet after every loss, so that the first win would recover all previous losses plus win a profit equal to the original stake. The martingale strategy has been applied to roulette as well, as the probability of hitting"
"as toto competitions on Continental Europe. While the principle of requiring entrants to predict the results of football matches in advance remains the same, the details are fundamentally different. The name toto derives from totalisator machines which are used to process the parimutuel betting involved. Typically, a list of 13 matches for the coming week will be given. Pools entrants have to select the result of each one, whether it will be a home win, an away win or neither of these, typically by marking each match with either a 1, a 2 or an ""N"" (sometimes ""X"" or 0)."
"on The Tote Jackpot bet at Newmarket Racecourse. Although funds were removed from customer accounts before the bets had won, the company claimed that due to ""technical issues in transmitting bets into the Tote pools in the last 10 minutes before the pool closed"", they would not pay any winnings. Reportedly some small gamblers were deprived of wins of up to £16,000 apiece. Betfair Betfair is an online gambling company which operates the world's largest online betting exchange. It also offers a Sportsbook (fixed odds betting), online casino, online poker and online bingo. The company's headquarters are located in Hammersmith"
"their bet. Failure to do so results in a loss of points equal to the bet, regardless of any points earned during the hand. Play continues until one player reaches 104 points. In Isle Madame and surrounding areas on Cape Breton Island, (Province of Nova Scotia, Canada) the game is called Pede and is played in both French and English. The point system is as follows: Total of 39 points. The Isle Madame version is generally played with the following variations: In central Tennessee, the game is played as described above with a few variations in point cards, trump cards,"
"Trente et Quarante Trente et Quarante (Thirty and Forty), also called Rouge et Noir (Red and Black), is a 17th-century gambling card game of French origin played with cards and a special table. It is rarely found in US casinos, but still very popular in Continental European casinos, especially in France, Italy, and Monaco. It is a simple game that usually gives the players a very good expected return of more than 98%. Two croupiers sit on each side of the table, one of them being the dealer; behind the two on the side opposite to the dealer a supervisor"
"stock character in French culture; he is the generic child used in jokes (""Toto asks his mother...""). See (Toto joke). Tête à Toto The tête à Toto is a French typographical design and children's game, well known to French schoolchildren, depicted to the right. It consists of the equation ""0+0=0"", written with the first two ""0""s for eyes, the ""+"" for a nose, the ""="" for a mouth, and the final ""0"" surrounding, as a stylized face or skull. It is drawn while reciting: la tête à Toto</poem> Translated: <poem>Zero plus zero equals the head of Toto (Toto's head)</poem> As"
"This occurs because as the player loses, the average bet size in the line increases. As with all other betting systems, the average value of this system is negative. The system, also called ""montant et demontant"" (from French, meaning upwards and downwards), is often called a pyramid system. It is based on a mathematical equilibrium theory devised by a French mathematician of the same name. Like the martingale, this system is mainly applied to the even-money outside bets, and is favored by players who want to keep the amount of their bets and losses to a minimum. The betting progression"
"The first major race meetings with tote betting were the flat race meetings at Newmarket (July Course) and Carlisle on 2 July 1929. Under the Betting Levy Act 1961 the board was reconstituted as the Horserace Totalisator Board (""the Tote""), with responsibility for the redistribution of funds to racing transferred to the Horserace Betting Levy Board. The Tote opened its first high street betting shop in 1972, and has since grown to employ more than 4,000 staff. Tote Direct was set up in 1992 to channel tote bets from other high street bookmakers into tote pools. Now tote betting is"
"Labouchère system The Labouchère system, also called the cancellation system or split martingale, is a gambling strategy used in roulette. The user of such a strategy decides before playing how much money they want to win, and writes down a list of positive numbers that sum to the predetermined amount. With each bet, the player stakes an amount equal to the sum of the first and last numbers on the list. If only one number remains, that number is the amount of the stake. If bet is successful, the two amounts are removed from the list. If the bet is"
"is played by 4 players in fixed partnerships. Its distinguishing features are that all cards are distributed right from the start, and that players bid in terms of the number of points they expect to make. There are numerous rule variants; the following rules are meant as a particularly simple and progressive example. The game is also known as ""Belote Coinchée"" or ""Coinche"", but it has been proposed to reserve this term for the variant played with melds and Belote. Belote Contrée and Belote Coinchée are the most popular variants of the French national card game. Once all cards have"
"management on a continuing basis (which may serve the same purpose as the intended Tote racing development board)."""" The deal gave Betfred exclusive control over the on course betting system for seven years. Football manager and racehorse owner Sir Alex Ferguson had lent his support to Betfred's bid. In 2018, the exclusive license taken out by Betfred will run out. Betfred Betfred is a bookmaker based in the United Kingdom, founded by Fred and Peter Done. It was first established as a single shop in Ordsall, Salford, in 1967. Its turnover in 2004 was more than £3.5 billion, having risen"
"Roulette Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning ""little wheel"". In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a single number, various groupings of numbers, the colors red or black, whether the number is odd or even, or if the numbers are high (19–36) or low (1–18). To determine the winning number and color, a croupier spins a wheel in one direction, then spins a ball in the opposite direction around a tilted circular track running around the outer edge of the wheel. The ball eventually loses momentum, passes through an area of"
"to show that there was any loophole. Roulette Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning ""little wheel"". In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a single number, various groupings of numbers, the colors red or black, whether the number is odd or even, or if the numbers are high (19–36) or low (1–18). To determine the winning number and color, a croupier spins a wheel in one direction, then spins a ball in the opposite direction around a tilted circular track running around the outer edge of the wheel. The ball eventually"
"on illuminated boards, now known as ""tote boards"". In 1933, American Totalisator installed its first electro-mechanical tote system at Arlington Park in Arlington Heights, Illinois. The Strauss patents 2,179,698 issued 11/14/39 and 2,182,875, issued 12/12/39 were a platform to build AmTote's growth as the once dominant provider of totalizator solutions in North America. AmTote has installed more than 800 tote systems throughout the world. The original electro-mechanical devices have given way to fully computerized systems where bettors place and collect wagers at the same window, self-service betting terminals, Internet- and telephone-based wagering, and ""hub"" systems to facilitate simulcast wagering. The"
"(French for Parimutuel betting). He successfully introduced his pool method system at French race tracks. Nonetheless, in 1874, Joseph Oller was sentenced to fifteen days in prison and fined for operating illegal gambling. Later, in 1891, the French authorities legalised his system and banned fixed-odds betting. Quickly, Oller’s Pari Mutuel spread across most race tracks around the world, but the method was operationalised in engineered systems like that of the automatic totalisator, invented by George Alfred Julius. In 1870, he moved to London for a while to avoid the Franco-Prussian War. There he came into contact with the world of"
"not enough left to complete the two rows, he remarks ""Les cartes passent"" (The cards pass); they are taken from the bowl, reshuffled, and another deal begins. Trente et Quarante Trente et Quarante (Thirty and Forty), also called Rouge et Noir (Red and Black), is a 17th-century gambling card game of French origin played with cards and a special table. It is rarely found in US casinos, but still very popular in Continental European casinos, especially in France, Italy, and Monaco. It is a simple game that usually gives the players a very good expected return of more than 98%."
"history and some of the oldest and most popular gambling establishments are located on the territory of this country. France also contributed to the development of popular casino games. It was in France that the Queen became a permanent feature of the deck, replacing the Nobleman in the 1500s. In the 17th century the French mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the roulette wheel, which later led to the introduction of the roulette game. Parimutuel betting has a French origin and was invented about 1870. The first steps towards legalisation of remote gambling in France were made in 2005, when the European"
"Écarté Écarté is an old French casino game that is still played today. It is a two-player card game, the word literally meaning ""discarded"". It is a trick-taking game, similar to whist, but with a special and eponymous discarding phase. It is closely related to Euchre, a card game played mainly in the United States. Écarté was popular in the 19th century, but is now rarely played. All cards from two to six are removed from a 52-card pack, to produce the Piquet pack of thirty-two cards, which rank from the lowest 7, 8, 9, 10, ace, knave, queen, to"
"with 16 runners or more will see the first four places being classed as ""placed"". (A ""show"" bet in the North American sense does not exist in these locations.) However, one popular form of sports betting in the UK is Tote Betting. While it encompasses several different types of bets, the most popular is a Placepot which works similar to a lottery. As part of the bet, punters select one or more horses for each of the six races taking place and, depending on the number of horses running, must predict whether their horse will finish within the top three"
"Tête à Toto The tête à Toto is a French typographical design and children's game, well known to French schoolchildren, depicted to the right. It consists of the equation ""0+0=0"", written with the first two ""0""s for eyes, the ""+"" for a nose, the ""="" for a mouth, and the final ""0"" surrounding, as a stylized face or skull. It is drawn while reciting: la tête à Toto</poem> Translated: <poem>Zero plus zero equals the head of Toto (Toto's head)</poem> As his head equals zero, it means that his intelligence is null. The name, or character, of Toto is a common"
"so a gambler will be affected by these rules from time to time. The Tote Jackpot is a bet where you have to pick the first 6 winners at a meeting nominated by The Tote. The bet is available every day of the week. The minimum stake is £1 and multiples are in multiples of 50p. Typically the payouts are very good for the Jackpot as it is very difficult to pick six winners in a row. The betting pool will roll into the next Jackpot event if there is no dividend to pay. Similar to the Tote Jackpot, Tote"
"The Tarot Nouveau, of Frankfurt origin, has trumps which depict scenes of traditional social activities; this differs from the Renaissance allegorical motifs found in Italian-suited Tarot decks such as the Tarot de Marseille, Tarocco Piemontese, the Tarocco Bolognese, or even the Rider-Waite well known in cartomancy. ""Jeu de Tarot"" is now the most popular card game in France after Belote and many tournaments are held by the Fédération Française de Tarot. A Tarot Nouveau deck consists of 56 cards of four suits and 22 emblematic cards called ""atouts"" (trumps). Each suit consists of fourteen cards: ten pip cards, and four"
"many times his stake. Figures of railway trains and other objects sometimes take the place of horses. In recent years there has been a tendency to supplant the petits chevaux at French resorts by the boule or ball game, on the same principle of gambling; in this a ball is rolled on a basin-shaped table so that it may eventually settle in one of a number of shallow cups, each marked with a figure. ""Petits-chevaux"" plays a prominent part in the Saki story, ""The Way to the Dairy"" (c. 1911). Petits-Chevaux Petits-Chevaux, French for ""little horses"", is a gambling game"
"Petits-Chevaux Petits-Chevaux, French for ""little horses"", is a gambling game played with a mechanical device consisting of a board perforated with a number of concentric circular slits, in which revolve, each independently on its own axis, figures of jockeys on horseback, distinguished by numbers or colors. The bystanders having staked their money according to their choice on a board marked in divisions for this purpose, the horses are started revolving rapidly together by means of mechanism attached to the board, and the horse which stops nearest a marked goal wins, every player who has staked on that horse receiving so"
"at the Château de Bagatelle, recently erected at great expense by the king's brother, the Count of Artois. ""Bagatelle"" from Italian ""bagattella"", signifies 'a trifle', 'a decorative thing'. The highlight of the party was a new table game featuring a slender table and cue sticks, which players used to shoot ivory balls up an inclined playfield. The game was dubbed ""bagatelle"" by the count and shortly after swept through France. The name Bagatelle was first used to describe such a game in 1819. Its dimensions soon standardised at 7 feet by 21 inches. Some French soldiers carried their favorite bagatelle"
"Tarot Nouveau The Tarot Nouveau, French Tarot Nouveau or Bourgeois Tarot deck is a pattern of tarot cards. As such it differs from those tarot decks used in fortune-telling, such as the Tarot of Marseilles and Rider-Waite decks, in that the Tarot Nouveau is designed solely for playing the various tarot card games for which the 78-card tarot deck was originally devised, such as the game of French Tarot. In the French language, this deck is often called the tarot à jouer or playing tarot. This usage is distinct from cartomancy and other divinatory purposes, for which the tarot is"
"by Chinese entrepreneurs. The name itself comes from the Chinese characters ""hue"", meaning flower, and ""teng"" meaning to bet. It involves the combination of 37 numbers against 37 numbers, (38 numbers in some areas), numbered 1 to 37, and bets are placed and accepted per combination. The game is usually played by choosing a combination of two numbers from 1 and 37, then little numbered balls (bolitas) are shaken in a basket (usually a rattan basket) and two balls are drawn before witnesses. The estimated gross revenue of the game varies, but it can reach to up to $500 million."
"For the sake of accuracy, zero spiel, although explained below, is not a French bet, it is more accurately ""the German bet"". Players at a table may bet a set amount per series (or multiples of that amount). The series are based on the way certain numbers lie next to each other on the roulette wheel. Not all casinos offer these bets, and some may offer additional bets or variations on these. This is a name, more accurately ""grands voisins du zéro"", for the 17 numbers that lie between 22 and 25 on the wheel, including 22 and 25 themselves."